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    English Essay - Muskaan: What Are The Central Concerns William Shakespeare Set Out To Explore in Othello?

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    William Shakespeare's play Othello explores the themes of love, trust, hate, and jealousy through its characters. The main characters - Othello, his wife Desdemona, and his sword-bearer Iago - represent these emotions. Iago manipulates Othello's trust in him by making him jealous of Desdemona's fidelity. This causes Othello to distrust and later murder Desdemona based on Iago's lies. The play uses these characters and their relationships to examine vulnerabilities in human nature like racism, sexism, deception, and the ease with which emotions can be manipulated.

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    English Essay - Muskaan: What Are The Central Concerns William Shakespeare Set Out To Explore in Othello?

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    William Shakespeare's play Othello explores the themes of love, trust, hate, and jealousy through its characters. The main characters - Othello, his wife Desdemona, and his sword-bearer Iago - represent these emotions. Iago manipulates Othello's trust in him by making him jealous of Desdemona's fidelity. This causes Othello to distrust and later murder Desdemona based on Iago's lies. The play uses these characters and their relationships to examine vulnerabilities in human nature like racism, sexism, deception, and the ease with which emotions can be manipulated.

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    William Shakespeare's play Othello explores the themes of love, trust, hate, and jealousy through its characters. The main characters - Othello, his wife Desdemona, and his sword-bearer Iago - represent these emotions. Iago manipulates Othello's trust in him by making him jealous of Desdemona's fidelity. This causes Othello to distrust and later murder Desdemona based on Iago's lies. The play uses these characters and their relationships to examine vulnerabilities in human nature like racism, sexism, deception, and the ease with which emotions can be manipulated.

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    English Essay - Muskaan: What Are The Central Concerns William Shakespeare Set Out To Explore in Othello?

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    William Shakespeare's play Othello explores the themes of love, trust, hate, and jealousy through its characters. The main characters - Othello, his wife Desdemona, and his sword-bearer Iago - represent these emotions. Iago manipulates Othello's trust in him by making him jealous of Desdemona's fidelity. This causes Othello to distrust and later murder Desdemona based on Iago's lies. The play uses these characters and their relationships to examine vulnerabilities in human nature like racism, sexism, deception, and the ease with which emotions can be manipulated.

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    What are the central concerns William Shakespeare set out to explore in Othello?
    Love, Trust, Hate and Jealousy. William Shakespeare sets out to explore the ominous
    aspects of human nature in his tragedy Othello by heroing these four emotions. He
    executes his concern by creating a range of characters with a broad-scale in regards
    to their nature, who act out Othellos dramatic plot in matter of five scenes. The play
    accentuates on a moor named Othello, whose dark skin is betrayed by his own
    sword-bearer, Iago. Iagos jealousy, Desdemonas love, and Othellos trust are the
    sparks that let the characters and audience explore human nature.
    William Shakespeare is interested in exploring human nature to make people. or the
    audience realise that we all wreak more vulnerability on others than we would like to
    admit. He skilfully invigorates the audience to compare themselves with the
    characters in the play, and the play overtime compels them to come to this
    realisation.
    Throughout the drama, the audience find themselves meticulously engaged in
    concepts and the consequences of human nature, such as the emotional attitudes of
    racism, sexism, hate, jealousy and deception by the manipulative antagonist, Iago.
    The relationships in the play are used to demonstrate the vulnerability of humans
    when involved personally with other people. The military values which Shakespeare
    explores in Othello such as honesty, trust and loyalty which are supposed to exist
    between soldiers, even in the heat of battle allow Iago to manipulate the other
    characters, even the most noble of them all; Othello. Iago manages to get into the
    hearts and minds of his colleagues so that he can use psychological and emotional
    control over them. Without any waste of time, Shakespeare bluntly exposed Iagos
    motives within the first Act itself. Iagos asides and soliloquies in Act 1 revealed his
    continuing misrepresentations, where Iago tells Othello that Desdemonas father got
    to know of their marriage, indicating that Roderigo betrayed Othello. In Act 1 Scene
    2, Iagos dual-faced personality appears to highlight at a rapid speed, where he
    pretends to be supportive of Othellos marriage with Desdemona, but soon in a
    conversation with Cassio he backbites about the same. These two examples are mere
    trailers of the upcoming hell of a movie, where Iago himself is unclear of his selfish
    and conspiring motives driven by jealousy and misconceptions. He is driven by
    jealousy and thinks that Othello slept with his own wife Emilia, clearly standing as a
    misconception against Othellos nobleness. Via Iagos character, the evil facets of
    human nature that are explored by Shakespeare conclude that to lose control over
    one selfs emotions and then opting to inflict pain and hurt upon others is the
    ultimate reason to be framed as the evilest character in literary history. Iagos
    character allows Shakespeare to believe that humans are inherently evil, and this
    was proved towards the end of the act where Othello killed his own wife,
    Desdemona, showing no mercy what so ever.
    Love is explored from the very start of the play between Othello and Desdemona,
    but their relationship takes a drastic turn when Othello is under the influence and
    power of Iago. Although Othello and Desdemona truly love eachother, their race is
    shown to be conflicting, where Desdemona is described as a white ewe, because of
    her innocence, purity and attractiveness and on the other hand Othello is told to be
    an Old black ram, implying he is some sort of a black beast. This example of a
    juxtaposition heavily accentuates on their races, but their skin colour doesnt reduce
    their love for one another, until Iagos motives and plans come into action.

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